Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
one of 338 National Register listings in Cuyahoga County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 3 National Historic Landmarks in Cuyahoga County.
National Register reference number.79001799- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 3,305 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 3,305 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Pickands, Jay M., House between 1850 and
1975: 2,902 Animalia, 218 Fungi, 106 Plantae, 73 Protozoa, 5 Unrecorded, 1 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. D. Huryn, A. D. Selby, A. Hall and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Pickands, Jay M., House: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Zirconium, Zinc, Tungsten, Molybdenum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Bratenahl, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Doan Brook flows from Shaker Lakes through the University Circle in eastern Cleveland. Reports of upwards of 4.09 had fallen across the small and mainly urban watershed on the morning of Labor Day, causing an upstream reservoir the Horseshoe Lake Dam in Shaker Height to overtop. Horseshoe Lake, a high hazard dam, had been constructed in 1852 and in 2019 had been drained after being designated at structurally deficient by Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Despite being near empty the lake was able to fill and overtop on Labor Day after a basin average of 4 inches of rain fell. Concerns were raised by Emergency Management that the earthen dam could erode and collapse from the overtopping, however ultimately the dam held. ||The additional flows from the lake and the urban runoff caused Doan Brook to flood through the watershed from the intersection of Coventry Road and North Park Blvd and the Cleveland Cultural Gardens along MLK Parkway. Swift water rescue team deployed for multiple vehicles stuck in flowing flood waters along MLK Parkway. A USGS stream gage on Doan Brook crested at 11.39 feet at 10:55 AM with peak flows between a 50 and 100 year flood. Damage included multiple flooded cars and road washout.
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From the nomination file
1,447 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
a stuccoed masonry structure, basically rectangular with two building. The roofs are tall and hipped, the main one being curved front, arched windows, and pilasters. There are four of a sharp curve in Lake Shore Boulevard, and the street CONDITION UNALTERED DETERIORATED FAIR story level.
house is emphasized by continuous stringcourses at the second There are three roof dormers on the facade.The ground story roof dormers.This elevation is embraced by a balustraded The lakefront elevation has a projecting one-story bay with a slightly flared at the eaves.There are four very tall chimneys windows are arched with prominent keystones, and the second This is a large residence in the Renaissance revival style.It is CHECK ONE symmetrical wings extending at 45°angles from the ends of the property extends to the shore of Lake Erie. has a porch in the form of an open loggia with paired piers and roof.The eaves of both the loggia and the main roofs are standing above the roofs. The facade formed by the angled wings front is enclosed by an iron fence.
The north edge of the is broken only by an octagonal stair tower in the west corner ell. AREAS OF
Statement of significance
This house was the residence of Jay M. Pickands, a member of an important Cleveland coal and iron ore firm, Pickands, Mather & Co. 20th century, J. Milton Dyer. for the pig iron department of Pickands, Mather & Co. A club member, affluent lakeshore suburb, which also includes the William G. Mather and Howard M. Hanna Houses (NR). J. Milton Dyer, the architect, had a surprisingly brief career from 1800-1899 1906-1907 1700-1799 ART ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC 1600-1699 SCIENCE EDUCATION COMMERCE POLITICS/GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURE PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC ECONOMICS THEATER PERIOD SCULPTURE BUILDER/ARCHITECT SIGNIFICANCE MILITARY INDUSTRY PREHISTORIC Renaissance revival idiom.
LITERATURE _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT Cleveland's most progressive architects of the first decade of the INVENTION commercial, and residential buildings in every fashionable style, Jay M.
Pickands was the son of James Pickands, one of the founders _CONSERVATION conservative moneyed class of his era.He built the home in Bratenahl -1400-1499 _TRANSPORTATION _COMMUNICATIONS to design the Modernistic Cleveland Harbor Station (NR).The Pickands However, the primary significance of the house derives from its _ENGINEERING architectural character and the fact that it was designed by one of -1500-1599 -RELIGION in1906-1907.It remains one of the outstanding residences in the 1900 to191l.Born in1870,Dyer came to Cleveland in 1881.He studied for five and a half years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in _MUSIC - LAW X1900- of the company in 1883. Jay M.
was born in Marquette, Michigan, fraternity man, and "staunch Republican, " Pickands typified the as well as experimenting with innovative structures and the progressive house is one of his more outstanding residential works in the architectural modes of the early 20th century.In 1940 Dyer re-emerged in 1880.After graduating from Yale in 1902,he became a salesman
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001799, 11 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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